The idea is to have a generic support for PDT in terms of
debugger connectivity.

Your document and the plugin you wrote will help us to
provide this kind of support, and by that we will have support for Zend
Debugger, Xdebug and any other desired debugger.

Shalom Gibly is the committer working on the debugger part.

Since we didn’t want to make these kinds of changes to
PDT 0.7 since it was too late, we will add this support for PDT 1.0 which is
scheduled for September, though there is no final date for the actual
modification.

If you have updated information about Xdebug or further
ideas, please send them over.

I
was wondering now that 0.7RC3 is out how things are progressing for getting
XDebug support into PDT. I hope the document I sent you is a start to coming up
with a framework for PDT to support Zend, XDebug and maybe other debug
protocols in the future.

There
has been a lot of interest in the XDebug plugin so I think it would be great
for PDT to get the support in. I was also pleased to see that it got
mentioned in your EclipseCon presentation.